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[keaalu]

Busy profiling again - although you might not have heard of this little girl yet. Her name is "Notion" - she can't remember her real name, and decided perhaps it was Notion after Ivy said "what a strange notion" about her. :P Soo... yeah.

Notion is a primitive variant of SI - designed to order to be a guardian/pet/playmate for her owner's children, but "went feral" after being caught in the crossfire when war tore into her homeworld. (No, not an "OMG ROBOTS EVIL!" type war, just a clash of factions.) Her mind was 90% blanked by powerful EMP - she has her basal functions like walking and so on, but little else. She "stowed away" on (read: accidentally got aboard) an offworld frigate and essentially got bounced around from pillar to post and between a variety of dealers in exotic pets (since no-one considered she was anything more than a "monkey" of a sort) until fetching up at a waystation in Coalition territory, where her true nature was finally worked out and Dauntless offered a hand in getting her brain functioning properly again. She's essentially small, fuzzy and rather childlike, inquisitive and inoffensive and finds entertainment in most things.

She's a hexapod, although slightly centaurish in form - her quadruped half is lemurish in form, with a long, curling tail, and hands on all four feet ("centaur" as she was designed to be able to carry more than one child, one in her arms and the other on her back.) Her face is a little catlike and fairly "snub", and her fur is either shades of lilac or blue (I've not decided which yet - I was leaning towards blue but I've got too many blue Synth). She wears an Egyptian-collar-esque necklace (which is in fact part of her) and has two little antennae.

Comments

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting enough. :)

[aegis-fox.livejournal.com]

Hm. Certainly a different approch to a synth on your part. This should be interesting... though I'm having a very hard time forming a mental picture of her. Especially the Hexapod bit. Does that mean she has six legs? Well.. limbs, anyway.

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I think it goes "-pod" = limbs, "-ped" = number of legs a creature walks on. Thus, humans are tetrapod but walk biped, foxes are also tetrapods but walk quadruped. Thus, Notion is hexapod, but walks as a quadruped, with two arms free to manipulate stuff. Like a centaur, just... messed-up.

Although I realise I have nowhere to put her yet. BAH, FRUIT-POLO. I might just use her as an RP character (if it ever gets off the ground, that is), or something, that's usually good for getting life into a character.

[julian-wilbury.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read that article on the Uncanny Valley? For some reason Notion reminds me of what the folks in the article thought synths would have to look like to be "accepted"...although their idea was more around "deer", but still, a very soft, gentle look...because lord knows, synths have to be "cute" for people to accept them. *smirk*

Poor thing, though. Can't wait to see the design you draw up for her. Don't blame you for having so much blue synths....blue is just such an asthetically pleasing colour. (I REALLY had to work hard in my Webmaster's class to keep myself from doing too many blue sites. XD)

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

I knew ABOUT "Uncanny Valley" - at least the gist of it, that there's a point where a simulacrum becomes "too human" for society to accept it, or something? I know the shape of the graph, at least, and was a little put off by the way they had "corpse" and "zombie" in the same section. :P (And I'm assuming you don't mean the ACTUAL "Uncanny Valley" in California. ;) )

...and speaking of which, I need to get back into ACTUAL drawing...